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Catalogue description Home Office: Convict Hulks, Convict Prisons and Criminal Lunatic Asylums: Quarterly Returns of Prisoners
| Reference: | HO 8 |
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| Title: | Home Office: Convict Hulks, Convict Prisons and Criminal Lunatic Asylums: Quarterly Returns of Prisoners |
| Description: |
Sworn lists of convicts on board the convict hulks (until 1861) and in the convict prisons (from 1848). Criminal lunatic asylums are included from 1862. Some returns for hulks at Bermuda are included. Give particulars as to their ages, convictions and sentences, health, behaviour, etc. PLEASE NOTE: Electronic images of selected pieces of these records can be searched online through our partner website. |
| Date: | 1824-1876 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 207 volume(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Section XIV of the Transportation of Offenders Act 1824 (5 Geo IV chapter 85) provided that the Superintendent of Convicts should make sworn quarterly returns of prisoners in the hulks to the Secretary of State. |
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